Voyage to Crete: Eleutherna
by Eti Bonn-Muller
July 24, 2009
Today I’m staying at a hotel on the beach just outside Rethymno, near the ancient city of Eleutherna. I’ll get a full tour of the site from the archaeologists tomorrow. In the meantime, they’ve been kind enough to show me the environs. The unmarked, rocky roads that hug the surrounding hills–the northern foothills of Mt. Ida–kick up clouds of dust as the team’s creaky pickup truck shifts gears to avoid uphill catastrophe at each sharp curve. But what awaits us at the other end is well worth the nail-biting journey.
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The knotted trunk of this age-old olive tree next to the fort captured my attention.
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